Lifting-hook for shells



A. D. LIGHTNER AND E. HOLMES.

LIFTING HOOK FOR SHELLS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6, 1919- Patented May 3, 1921 INVENTORS 19/7770! 0. Z lgllfner BY [award ha/mes l zwlmil it. n A

A TTORNEY 1 To all whom it may concern:

UNITED sear ARTHUR D. LIG-HTNER AND ELEV/ARI 3259111153363, 8F TOLELDG, UHIO, ASflZG-NUl'l-i Be it known that we, ARTHUR D. Lrcrrr- 'NER and EDWARD Horn-ans, citizens of the United .States, residing at Toledo, county of Lucas, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lifting-Hooks for Shells, of which we de clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in lifting hooks, such as are particularly adapted for use in handling artillery shells before the explosive charge and the timing mechanism has been placed in position therein. While this invention is particularly adaptedcfor use in handling shells, it may be used with equal facility for handling a variety of other articles, such short lengths of hollow pipe or other material of that nature which admits of being corded in piles.

One-object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which is capable of handling a plurality of shells, and depositing them in proper position parallel with each other.

A further object of this invention is to provide a device or"- this character which will readily engage a plurality of shells, in their usual position parallel to each other and transfer them to a pile in substantially the same position.

A further object of this invention is to provide a device of this character which is of simple construction and eiiicient in op eration. i

Further objects of this invention relate to economies of manufacture and details of construction as will hereinafter appear from the detailed description to follow.

We accomplish the objects of our invention in one instance by the devices and means described in the following, specification, but it is evident that the same may be va'ied without departing from the scope of the invention, as pointed out in the appended l with shells of the upper tier.

Specification of letters Eatcnt.

Application filed .Yanuary 6, 193.5. Serial li o.

l is a front elevation of the im- Fig. lV is a side view, partially in section, showing one of the lifting members in elevation taken along the line IV-1V of Fig. ill.

in the drawing, corresponding-reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. 10 designates a platform of suitable construction having corded thereon a plurality of tiers and shells 11. the shells being provided with cylindrical recesses l2, as shown by the dotted lines applied to the shells at the right of Fig. l.

When the unfinished shells are received for further machining, it is necessary that they be 'emoved from the cars upon which they have been shipped and placed in piles which are readily accessible, so that a part of the shells may be taken therefrom and transferred to the shop as they are required. In unloading the cars, it has been customary to use a magnet for lifting the shells from the cars and depositing them in position to he piled ll l'ien this method of unload-- ing the shells is employed, released by the magnet, Fall in a variety of angular positions with respect to each other, and it is necessary to employ laborers to cord the shells properly upon skids or platforms so that they will be protected from coming into engagement with the ground and placed in proper position so that they tain their original position with respect to each other, and may be properly positioned upon the skids. Thus it will. he seen that the necessity of having; the.shelis placed in proper position upon the skids after they have been unloaded is essential, and that with our improved lifting hook the shells are unloaded. and piled by one operatlOIl. Y 1 r i The lifting; member is preferably formed ot a channel base portion angle the shells, as

lar flanges 14 extending from the opposite longitudinal edges of the base portion and serving as an additional strengthening means for the same. A plurality of hook members 15 are provided with angular ex tensions 16 which are secured t9 one face of the base portion by bolts or rivets 17. The hook members 15 are attached to the base portion in such a manner that they are spaced substantially an equal distanceirom each other, and the plane of each, book member is at substantially a right angle to the length of the base portion.

Each hook member 15 comprises the an gular extension 16, a straight portion 18, and a curved portion 15), adapted for insertion in the cylindrical opening of a. shell.

with an eye 21 for A bail is provided 22 of a hoisting caattachment to the hook ble, and has parallel arms 23 adapted to pass vthrough openings formed .in the flanges of the base portion and to be held in position therein by nuts 2.4. It Will be noted that the straight portions 18 of the hook members 15 lie in a common plane which forms an obtuse angle with theplane of the base portion, sothat when shells are carried by the curved portions 19 0f the hook'member, and the base portion consequently held in substantial vertical position, the free ends of the curved portions 19 will extend upwardly to prevent the shells from. being accidentally removed therefrom. The hook members 15 are bent in such a manner that the free ends thereof are spaced from the base plate and the various members are bent to a substantially equal extent so that they occupy a position as shown in Fig. I, all lying substantially within a surface generated by the displacement of one of the hooks in a direction lougitudinally of the base portion, which a orena-e rangemept enaliies the hooks to hold aplurality oi shells in such a position thatthey will be retained parallel to each other as shown in Fig. II, and thus may be deposited in proper position relative to each other. While we have shown and described in considerable detail a specific embodiment of our invention, it is to be understood that this showing and description is illustrative only, and for the invention more clear, and that We do not desire to regard the invention as limited to the details of construction illustrated or described, nor any of them, except in so far as we have included such limitation Within the terms of the following claims, in Which it is ourintention to claim all novelty in,- herent in our invention broadly,-as Well as specifically. p v p Having thus described our'invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a deviceof the class described, in

combination, a channeled base portion, a

purpose of rendering our I bail passed through the flanges of the base portion and of books secured to the base portion and extending therefrom at an angle to the plane of the base portion.

2. In a device of the class described, in

combination, a. channeled base portion, a bail passed through the flanges of the base portion and fixed thereto, and a plurality of hooks secured to the base portion, each of said hooks lying substantially within a surface generated by thedisplacement of one of the hooksiir" a direction longitudinally of the base portion.

ARTHUR D. LIGHTN ER. EDWARD HOLMES.

fixed thereto, and a pluralityso In testimony whereof -We affix our signatures. 

